World Cultures Daily Round Up for 4 January 2007


Scribed by:Colter, Kirste, tevin, Alyssa, Shea, Heather,Tyler, Grady

Activities for today
  • Describe acitivies for class
  • We learned about the Geography of China.
  • Saw Japanese artifacts
  • we saw what people new about china and said if they were true or false
  • we labled the geography map of china
  • A girl in our class told us what it was like staying in China
  • Second period was going to do the geography of China.
  • We looked at the list that 5 of us made.
  • POTD: Canadian Sandcaslte Contest.
  • SOTD: Moonshadow by Cat Stevens
  • we compared the size of china and the USA
  • we saw stuff from japan like the umbrella and the fans and the kamono and the japanese magizine
  • china is a little bit bigger than the USA
  • has very low population density

Concepts covered in class with brief summary
  • Describe important concepts covered in class
  • Discussed China's population
  • china is about the same size as the united states (including alaska)
  • china has a relatively low population density
  • it has many "sand" deserts but the desrts get snow
  • although China has a very high population, its population density isnt very high
  • we discussed china's population and geography.
  • China has many different religons
  • China has made part of its borders with its mountain ranges
  • China does not have a high population density because they can only live in parts of the country because of the mountains.

Assignments for tomorrow or later
  • Describe assignments made in class today
  • quiz over chapter 28 section 1 and 2
  • The reading due FRIDAY and the quiz

Additional resources and interesting items related to class today